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With more people than ever clamouring to be third-party guarantors, auction houses increasingly simply structure the guarantee transaction and then sell off the risk to dealers, art advisors, or collectors, hailing from the hedge fund, [...]

Anna Pottery snake jug by Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, 1877 The “snake jug” shattered the previous record for Anna Pottery, a niche favourite of Americana collectors A sinuous salt-glazed stoneware jug made by the 19th-century [...]

JOHANNESBURG - Data released this week by Airbnb shows that 13% of home hosts on Airbnb in South Africa work in the creative industry, such as film, art, design, fashion and music. For many of [...]

The full collection of traditional and modern ceramics is available for public viewing at The Corobrik National Ceramics Biennale.  The exhibition was opened at the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery and Clay Museum in Durbanville on Sunday 11 November. [...]

Pablo Picasso, La Lampe, 1931 “My grandfather was born the day he died,” Olivier Widmaier Picasso likes to say. Although a few of his artworks scattered the family home, and Picasso’s mother, Maya, referred to [...]

Cape Town – Organisers of the city's largest public art mural say they will continue to foster Cape Town being the art capital of Africa, after the unveiling of the mural in Harrington Street. The [...]

The octogenarian painter stars in The Price of Everything, a new film about the machinations of the market airing on HBO An artist walks through a snowbound landscape in upstate New York, on his way [...]

Chicago’s aborted effort to sell Kerry James Marshall’s public work teaches us something about the transactional nature of today’s culture. Chicago has a bold reputation for selling off its municipal assets. The city was the [...]

JOHANNESBURG - Data released this week by Airbnb shows that 13% of home hosts on Airbnb in South Africa work in the creative industry, such as film, art, design, fashion and music. For many of [...]